The free agent's denial came on the heels of reporters from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The Athletic, WSCR and other outlets citing sources denying any deal was done between Darvish and the Cubs.

Minutes before Darvish's tweet, the Barstool personality responsible for the initial report responded to the local beat writers by tweeting: "I'll go to war with baseball writers over my sources any day of the week and twice on Sunday. The most dangerous thing in the world is a man with nothing to lose."